{"type":"article","show_header_text":true,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT MIREYA MOSCOSO","query":"(per=\"MOSCOSO, MIREYA\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(persons:\"MOSCOSO, MIREYA\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"MOSCOSO, MIREYA","more_on_header":"MORE ON MIREYA MOSCOSO AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN and GINGER THOMPSON; Steven R. Weisman reported from Panama City for this article, and Ginger Thompson from Mexico City

Martín Torrijos, the son of a former dictator, was sworn in as Panama's new president on Wednesday and walked straight into a diplomatic storm. Last week, Cuba broke relations with Panama to protest a decision by the departing president, Mireya...

More than 14 years after the end of authoritarian rule, voters here elected the son of a former military dictator on Sunday as Panama's next president. Martín Torrijos, 40, is the heir of a political party that was built by military strongmen,...

Mariangel Ruiz, the country's entry for Miss Universe, will take part in the contest after all, the organizers announced. The main sponsor of Miss Venezuela, the private television channel Venevisión, said last week that it could not obtain the hard...

Two years ago, three former soldiers in Panama's military told their priests that human remains were buried on an old military base. The soldiers, apparently driven by conscience, said that the bodies were those of opposition activists murdered under...

With a choir singing ''Ode to Joy'' as the prelude, nearly a century of American power and presence along the shores of the Panama Canal symbolically ended today when former President Jimmy Carter exchanged diplomatic notes with President Mireya...

A week after being voted the most valuable player in the World Series, Mariano Rivera, the Yankees relief pitcher, stood with President Mireya Moscoso during Panama's Independence Day parade yesterday in Panama City and was given the Manuel Amador...

Mireya Moscoso, a schoolteacher's daughter who grew up in rural poverty, was sworn in today as Panama's President, the first woman to lead the nation. She will also become the first Panamanian President to lead a completely sovereign country once the...

For more than 20 years, Mireya Elisa Moscoso lived in the shadow of a man 45 years her senior who, she says, even told her how to wear her hair. But by the side of that man, her late husband, Dr. Arnulfo Arias, three times President of Panama, she...

Mireya Moscoso, the widow of a Panamanian President who stepped out on her own politically to become the main opposition leader here, narrowly defeated her main opponent tonight, electing her the country's first woman President. With just 55...

The ''Trautenbels,'' a 484-foot cargo ship, was ushered from the Pacific Ocean into the Panama Canal by tugboats, and by two electric towing locomotives into a water lane. Steel gates snapped shut, enclosing the ship in a chamber, inside which it was...